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Under pressure from Muslim fundamentalists, authorities in Bangladesh have issued a warrant for the arrest of Taslima Nasrin, a doctor turned feminist writer who was quoted in a Calcutta newspaper as saying that the Koran should be revised thoroughly. Nasrin, previously threatened by fundamentalists for her controversial book Lajja (Shame), in which she described atrocities on minority Hindus by the majority Muslims, denies making the statement and has gone into hiding...
Still others sought to start new, more active feminist groups after RUS leaders declared the organization largely apolitical...
Seventh Sense, a women's group that had fadedout of existence years before, pledges to providea place where women could discuss women's issues.Careful not to label itself as either a politicalor feminist group, the organization hopes tobecome an alternative...
...group would be a "springboard tostimulate feminist activity,' Sukthankar says...
Last month, RHSEF was founded to stimulatediscussion about feminist issues among both menand women. Rebecca M. Boggs '95, who startedRHSEF, says her group, too, wants to fill a voidin campus debate by focusing on what itsorganizers call "equality feminism...